Xinyang.

Xinyang sits at the southern edge of Henan, where the Huai river plain begins to fold into the northern slopes of the Dabie Mountains. The district that holds the old town, Shihe, covers 1,778 square kilometres, runs nine townships and ten subdistricts, and describes itself as ringed on the west by Nanwan Lake and backed on the south by the Dabie range. That position gives the city a climate between subtropical and warm temperate, wet and mild with four distinct seasons, and a landscape of tea terraces, reservoirs and rice. The city's own count lists 101 A-level scenic areas within its boundaries. Three names anchor a visit: Jigongshan, the mountain resort foreign missionaries began building in 1902; Nanwan Lake, a reservoir with sixty-one islands; and the tea hills of Shihegang, where Xinyang Maojian is picked.